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All the ideas for 'The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800', 'Disputed questions about truth' and 'Freedom and Reason'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

22103

Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

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Moral statements are imperatives rather than the avowals of emotion - but universalisable [Hare, by Glock]

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Universalised prescriptivism could be seen as implying utilitarianism [Hare, by Foot]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

6449	The categorical imperative leads to utilitarianism [Hare, by Nagel]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

5470	The idea of laws of nature arose in the Middle Ages [Hall,AR, by Ellis]